Is there a name for the propaganda tactic of attaching people's names to headlines in order to associate a negative event with their name? I see it happening pretty often in the last few years. Also, if X's valuation ever goes back up will these same people write a similar article about it, and attach his name to that positive event? Or would it just be ignored and not reported on?
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I mean, it is _his fault_. Are you aware of the phrase “the buck stops here”? And from a practical point of view, just “X” is pretty ambiguous, and the “X, formerly known as Twitter” thing is cumbersome.
What makes you think this is propaganda? In service of what ends? Propaganda doesn’t just mean “news I don’t like”, or even “poorly/clickbait-y reported news I don’t like”.